obama also stressed that chinese ally iran must not be allowed to create nuclear weapons. that is a position that germany shares. >> on the one hand, we are ready for in-debt discussions and negotiations, but on the other hand, we need to toughen sanctions. >> germany's foreign minister spoke of a word in -- world in turmoil. obama stressed many countries had made progress but that recent troubles in the muslim world demonstrated the hard task of achieving true democracy. >> i have been talking to our correspondent, who is covering the general assembly's opening for us, and i began by asking if there were any surprises in president obama's speech. >> well, he touched upon the topics we all expected him to touch upon -- syria, iran. we saw that in the report, but what was surprising was that he spent so little time on them. he spent the majority of his speaking time talking basically about american values, defending his foreign policy, explaining why it is possible that america could have a video, like the basic -- basically infamous video that caused all the turmoil in the